Session Title: Preventing Harm within your Community
Session Description
Preventing Harm within your Community: "Harm doesn’t fall equally across a community — and neither does health. Injury, illness, and poor outcomes often mirror deeper inequalities: where you live, how you work, and the opportunities you’re given. Preventing harm means more than stopping accidents — it means tackling the roots of disadvantage and building fairer, safer communities for all. We ask: how can we move upstream, and make prevention everyone’s right — not a privilege?"
Agenda
08:30 - 09:30: What can you do about health inequalities & Take MSK Physio to Food Banks
Dr Anthony Gilbert & Rishi Navarsi
09:30 - 10:00: Injury prevention at grass roots football clubs
Tom Jacobs, Specialist MSK Physiotherapist
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Tom Jacobs
Specialist MSK Physiotherapist
Tom has worked at different teaching hospitals in the south, including the RBH and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. He has also spent time at Wasps Rugby DPP and with independent athletes at grassroots and elite level at athlete development centres in Abingdon and Bisham Abbey. He has worked as a consultant to local independent schools now for the past 10 years and has pioneered an injury triage service to diagnose and treat sports injuries early. He has also established a diagnostic MSK service for different GP practices in the Vale area in recent years, which he still helps operate. Tom is a speaker at orthopaedic events such as The International Kids Knee Conference, Association of Trauma and Orthopaedic Chartered Physiotherapists and the British Orthopaedic Association conferences. He's a visiting lecturer at Oxford Brookes University for both the MSc and BSc Physiotherapy programmes and he also teaches trainee GPs in MSK examination and management in the Oxford Deanery.
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Rishi Navarsi
Consultant Physiotherapist
Mr Rishi Navsaria qualified as a Physiotherapist in 2003/4 and completed his core rotational training in orthopaedics, musculoskeletal, neurological and medical respiratory at the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital, and Imperial College Healthcare Trust. In 2013 he began his Advanced Orthopaedic Practitioner role within Spinal Orthopaedic Surgery at Imperial College Healthcare, assessing patients with acute spinal trauma and those with degenerative spinal conditions. Since then, Mr Navsaria has gone on to take Advanced Practitioner roles in primary and community care, delivering point of care diagnostic ultrasound and guided injection procedures in the community, improving early patient management and reducing unnecessary waits for radiology diagnostics. He won the prestigious National Health Service Journal award for innovation for the work in this area. He is now one of only a handful of Consultant Physiotherapists in Spinal Orthopaedics with speciality skills working across primary, secondary and tertiary care in order to deliver expert care earlier in a patient’s journey to avoid the development of chronic long term spinal orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions. He is the Clinical Lead for the new RNOH MSK Hub in Enfield, one of the first such hubs in the country, which looks to deliver the RNOH expertise to local regions by having RNOH multi-professional expert clinicians under one roof based in the community. Mr Navsaria also carries a part time permanent academic role within the Health and Social Care Faculty at the University of Hertfordshire. He is the Lead Tutor for the Masters Level First Contact Practitioner Programme. Mr Navsaria’s current research interests include metabolic syndrome, MSK Health Inequalities and Spinal orthopaedic care.
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Dr Anthony Gilbert
Postdoctoral Clinical Research Physiotherapist
Dr Anthony Gilbert has developed expertise as a clinical researcher over the last decade whilst working as a Physiotherapist at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH). Dr Gilbert was awarded his NIHR funded PhD in 2022 which investigated patient preferences for remote consultations. Anthony has developed a specific interest into the ways healthcare systems are organized and how this influences patient access to healthcare. Anthony continues to develop a programme of research around musculoskeletal health and was recently awarded funding by NIHR SPCR to investigate the challenges people from deprived communities face around accessing primary MSK Care.
